A line attributed to Amal Clooney tends to surface in discussions where the tone shifts between concern and expectation. It is not the kind of sentence that tries to impress. It sounds more like something said in the middle of a longer conversation about how things are changing and who is actually expected to carry…
Most drones rely on GPS and powerful computers to find their way around. That makes them heavy, expensive, and power-hungry, basically not practical for anything small. But honeybees? They navigate perfectly with brains smaller than a grain of rice. Now, scientists at Delft University of Technology have figured out their secret and built drones that…
Henry Nowak (left) and Vickrum Digwa (right) The chief constable of Hampshire police has apologised to the family of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was handcuffed and arrested by officers moments before he died after being fatally stabbed by 23-year-old Indian-origin Sikh man Vickrum Singh Digwa in Southampton last December.Chief Constable Alexis Boon told BBC that…
UK MP takes on Elon Musk’s xAI in groundbreaking deepfake legal challenge / Image: File A British Labour MP has launched a groundbreaking legal challenge against Elon Musk‘s artificial intelligence company xAI, arguing that AI developers should be held accountable when their systems create harmful content.Jess Asato announced that she has filed a claim in…
Deep under the pine forests of southwest Finland, the rock arrives first before anything else. It is old in a way that makes human construction feel temporary, shaped by geological time rather than anything built at the surface. According to PBS, the underground facility known as the Onkalo nuclear repository lies near Eurajoki, where nothing…
The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons, and for decades scientists have assumed that these cells are the primary drivers of memory and cognition. However, a new study from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that another type of brain cell, long considered little more than support tissue, may play a…
Whenever you spot a rainbow stretching across the sky after a monsoon shower, you think you’re seeing the same arc of colours as everyone around you. But here’s what science reveals: that rainbow is yours alone. Every person viewing what appears to be the same rainbow is actually seeing a completely different one, formed by…
In a cold store in northern Italy, Ötzi the Iceman lies behind controlled glass and steel, kept at a steady chill that mimics the glacier that once sealed him away. He has been there since 1991, when hikers stumbled upon what appeared to be a recent body lodged in the melting ice of the Ötztal…
For years, scientists believed that only humans and a handful of vertebrates could tell the difference between short and long durations, a skill as fundamental as reading the dots and dashes of Morse code. But researchers at Queen Mary University of London have turned that assumption on its head, proving that buff-tailed bumblebees can do…
It is not often that a handful of pale yellow fragments lying quietly in desert sand end up pulling scientists back into questions about ancient catastrophe and planetary violence. Libyan Desert Glass has been sitting in museum drawers and scattered across remote stretches of North Africa for decades, sometimes even cut into jewellery that once…